Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-09-17
Hints and Suggestions.


When dozen eggs will bring as much
in market as pound OF butter, the poul-
trvman is ahead of the dairyman.
In case of disappointment at receiving
no premiums, bear up by considering that
in the very nature of things your own
Judgment must be somewhat biased as
that of the Judges should not be.
Paint put on the outside of buildings in
autumn, after cold nights have driven
insects to winter quarters, will last better
than if spread when more rapid drying
occurs and will present also smoother
surface when dried.
The buyers tor frst-class hotels and
restaurants state that there is more diff
Guilty in obtaining superior mutton than
any kind of meat, poultry or game. If
this be true it should give good hint to
farmers in all sections of the country.
Separate the sexes when the chicks are
four to five months old. They will do
better apart. Give green food regularly,
| if your birds are cooped from it; if you
have garden, remembering that your
birds will need their salad next winter,
prepare for supply.
As a part of civilized farming on high
priced land, the sheep keeper must expect
to give fully as much care to his flock and
even more than other farm stock would
require. If through his neglect the flock
becomes failure, his losses will be even
greater than they would be in some other
branch of farming.
A single experiment in farm production,
if accurately conducted and every condi-
ton noted, is worth dozen surrounded
by uncertainties, but the single expert
ment most carefully noted must be sup
ported by many more before every ele-
ment of doubt can be eliminated.
The American Stockman does not be-
lieve in the utility of combining dairy and
beet production. 1t says that if farmer
wants to produce beef. better go at it and
make the dairy subordinate. If he wants
to do all he can with the dairy, better
make beef production subordinate. That
is sound, and experience will show it to
be so.
Winter apples are bound to command
good prices. The crop is short through
out the country. The Weld in New Eng
land is the best OF any section, and here
it is by no means up to the average. For
elgn advices promise favorable English
marke,. The situation is encouraging for
orchardists. -Neao England Homestead.
The agricultural press of the United
States has done more for the elevation and
enlightment of agricultural industry, than
all other agencies, ahd the great pity is
that every farmer does not take two or
three and make it as much his business to
read them as to pillow his land or milk his
cOw.-The Rural World.
In the herd of 100 Holsten cows and
heifers owned by Smith, Powell & Lamb,
80 cows and heiters average 20 pounds
Ii ounces of butter each in a week 26
three year-old heifers average l6 pounds
3 S-13 ounces in a week; 20 two year old
heifers average II pounds ounces in a
week; while the entire 100 cows and
heifers average 16 pounds - 43-100
ounces in a week.
1t is the general impression among
farmers that 1t will not pay to raise fall
pigs. AS they are usually cared for. left
to SHIFT for themselves through the winter,
this is, no doubt. true. But where at
tention is given to them, and they are
provided with warm quarters and proper
food, they can be Kept through the winter
with small outlay, and should make
satisfactory growth.
Where orchards persistently refuse to
bear year after year, the practical farmer
will set himself to work to discover the
cause and devise a remedy. An apple
tree occupies valuable ground, that is
wasted if it bears no fruit. In most
cases lack of manure or moisture will be
found the cause of the difficulty. Trees
on rich, moist ground should bear some
thing every year, if protected from insect
enemies of tree or truit.-Amerscan Cul-
GuatOr.